I've just build a system consisting of an ASUS Z87 based motherboard (Z87I-Deluxe) and attempted to set it up as a FreeNAS system using the newly released 9.1 software. I find that the system will not complete the boot process from the USB stick I'm using if the motherboard BIOS setting for "USB Configuration / Intel xHCI Mode" is enabled. The start up proceeds normally until the following messages appear
Trying to mount from /dev/ufs/FreeNASs1a [ro] .....
failed with error 19
So it appears that the start up process works normally and the USB stick is found and read normally but later on in the process the FreeNAS software does a Linux type mount of the USB stick and that fails. Of course, I work around this problem by disabling xHCI mode in the BIOS.
This occurs whether I'm using a USB 2.0 or USB 3.0 stick. Also occurs on both USB 2.0 or USB 3.0 motherboard ports.
I'm curious if this is a FreeNAS problem or a problem related to the ASUS motherboard BIOS. Also, whether using USB 2.0 for the system device results in less performance than if USB 3.0 is used.
Trying to mount from /dev/ufs/FreeNASs1a [ro] .....
failed with error 19
So it appears that the start up process works normally and the USB stick is found and read normally but later on in the process the FreeNAS software does a Linux type mount of the USB stick and that fails. Of course, I work around this problem by disabling xHCI mode in the BIOS.
This occurs whether I'm using a USB 2.0 or USB 3.0 stick. Also occurs on both USB 2.0 or USB 3.0 motherboard ports.
I'm curious if this is a FreeNAS problem or a problem related to the ASUS motherboard BIOS. Also, whether using USB 2.0 for the system device results in less performance than if USB 3.0 is used.